I seem skilled at finding spiders sitting inside the things I decide to take a photo of. This is the first photo I’ve taken this year that I’ve cropped before putting up. The depth to which my camera can focus is more than a lot of other cameras of the same calibre and [...]
I wanted to capture the amazing texture of the lily, the transparency of the petals, and somehow give an impression of the amazing scent that is filling the room. Well, I managed the first one in my not so humble opinion. Having to use the flash at this late hour of the evening [...]
They’ve abandoned the plants they’ve stripped (except for the bits I isolated using plastic bags and twisty ties) and resorted to moving into chrysalis mode on the house. We’ve spotted two chrysalis’s and two caterpillars hanging around.
Late this afternoon/evening there was a partial solar eclipse. Sadly, all the photos which my husband took of the eclipse images on the white card came out too blurry to really publish. So this is a photo of me (or rather, my arms) using our makeshift eclipse viewer. Simply it’s a piece [...]
My daughter was quite fascinated by this placement of Swiper and has put him back there a number of times.
My daughter and I make buns regular but this was the first time I tried a plait – and the first time my daughter helped with the forming of the dough (normally she nibbles at it). You can tell her handiwork as she added a small dollop of dough to the top of each [...]
Methinks we have a few too many caterpillars – despite my efforts to cull eggs. Have monarch butterflies always laid one egg at a time?
Produce from our garden
Friend’s daughter getting to cuddle a bunny at the petshop
I ran inside to grab my camera when I saw Tigger on his hind legs drinking from the bird bath – so of course I only got this photo of him pretending it couldn’t possibly have been him I saw.